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    "Knock them out. It''s best for the both of them."


    The knight gazed at ude in surprise as thetter drew his head back. Seeing the resolve in ude''s eyes, the knight nodded without a word. With that being said, the knight ushered the children to the other soldiers to ride with them. But just as they reached the chariot, the other knight pressed something on the children''s shoulder, knocking them out as quietly as possible. ude rocked his head as the knights nced back in his direction before ude set his eyes back on I leliot. ude marched in Ileliot''s direction, stopping several steps from thetter.


    Since ude would separate ways with them, he instructed Heliot of the ces he was certain there were survivors and then the safest mansion on the outskirt of the capital. Heliot listened carefully to the instruction, gazing in a particr direction while nodding.


    "Very well - ahem!" ude cleared his throat, assessing Heliot''s side profile. "Good luck on your mission."


    Heliot cast ude an indifferent side eye, only to see thetter wave dismissively. As ude walked away leisurely before he started skipping, Heliot''s attention shifted to the building before them. His eyes narrowed, catching little cracks in the wall.


    The cracks crawled and gradually picked up its pace. In a blink of an eye, the entire establishment erupted into smithereens.


    "Ahh..." Heliot protected himself from the debris by turning them into sand, creating thicker smoke of dust.


    Heliot had been wondering how ude stopped the impact of their abrupt sh. Even though Heliot was aware ude stopped Heliot''s attack with brute force, there was still an after-effect of the impact. This establishment wouldn''t survive the impact as it was the nearest to them. The establishments and houses were ruined in the arca, losing their roofs or showing clear effects of the impact.


    But this house, for some reason, wasn''t affected. Now, Heliot understood that wasn''t the case. "What a convenient ability," he murmured, realizing it wasn''t that the establishment where the children hid wasn''t affected. In fact, it inflicted the damages that was expected. The only reason it didn''t give in immediately was that ude stopped its time.


    From Ileliot''s understanding, ude didn''t stop the general time since everyone didn''t notice. However, he stopped or probably extended the life expectancy of the establishment. No wonder Heliot felt this strange aura when he went to check inside previously. It was just faint, and he didn''t have the time to dwell on it.


    "A convenient ability matched with a quick thinking... that young man is surely admirable." Heliot turned on his heel, telling himself, admiring ude''s ability and how quickly thetter''s thinking wasn''t their priority.


    Right now, Heliot had met another agenda, and that was to evacuate and rescue all the survivors. It was a shame he couldn''t end Zero himself, but more than his opinion, he couldn''t just turn his back on the people of Spade. He wasn''t his subject, but these pitiful citizens were simply victims of being born in and ruled by a cruel king.


    Heliot stepped out of the thick fog and was weed by several units, who were waiting for his orders. He scanned the knights'' determined faces, drawing a deep breath before his lips parted, briefing them on the important details and giving out his royal orders.


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    Meanwhile, near the seacoast of the Spade Kingdom, warships could be seen from the edge of thend. One could tell there was also a battle that was going on despite that ude could barely see the ships. They were as tiny as ants from his vantage point, but the smoke billowing in the night sky was an enough indicator of a fierce battle.


    Sparks were also flying, creating distant explosions from the cannons and causingrge waves. Just looking at it made ude a little nauseous as he wasn''t that fond of sea travel that much. Good thing they traveled with a small group and thus, they took the route onnd instead of


    going via ship.


    "Amazing..." ude breathed out, narrowing his eyes.


    His gaze caught the proud g of the Heart''s Kingdom fluttering wildly on top of the several warships. If ude''s calction was correct, Stefan shouldn''t have advanced this fast with the warships that weed them from the Spade Kingdom.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    However, considering most of the important limbs of Zero were in the Capital, it wasn''t that surprising. Even so, it was still amazing. After all, whoever was in charge of these warships was a capable individual. It was the same with the person defending the cast border. They managed to force Heliot to exert more effort to breach the border, after all.


    "Should I wait?" ude wondered to himself, looking around the coast if there were more troops. There was no one but himself. "Considering the n was to mislead Quentin and force half of his sea warriors into the other fort, they''d probably realizedte that the arrival ce is this one and not the other one"


    ude rocked his head in understanding, assuming that those who were expecting Stefan''s ships on the other fort didn''t realize this was where Stefan''s people would arrive. If those soldiers realized this, they would surely gallop their way into this ce to stop Stefan from stepping foot in thisnd.


    "That''s right. There''s no way Stefan would just leave the fort unguarded. He must''ve had other ns..." just as those remarks rolled out of ude''s lips, his breath hitched as his pupils went wide. His heart suddenly thudded against his ribcage, making it skip a beat for a moment. There, on the sea, appeared gigantic tentacles from the underground. It appeared so suddenly that some ships split in half. Compare to the tiny size of the ships that appeared from ude''s vantage point, those tentacles looked monstrous.


    "Kraken..." whispered ude, holding his breath as a warship from the Heart''s Kingdom got wrecked in one swift move. It reminded him of those dark threads in the Colosseum, but this one was twice bigger than those. "... just what sort of sorcery did that man do to deploy all sorts


    of things?"


    Just then, ude realized that Zero might''ve known the diversion Stefan nned, and thus, he prepared such a monstrous and legendary creature to fight them. This wouldn''t be an easy match... that was for sure.


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